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219 Then he bestowed on me largesse and dismissed me, so I returned to my house and paid the poor-rate and gave alms and abode in my former easy and pleasant case, forgetting the grievous stresses I had suffered. Yea, I cast out from my heart the cares of travel and traffic and put away travail from my thought and gave myself up to eating and drinking and pleasure and delight.”